Best day ever

Yesterday was by far the highlight of this trip. I woke up at about 9 in the morning and me and some friends rented a car to explore the Tuscan countryside. It is absolutely beautiful out here. We went to a bunch of small towns and sampled local wines, cheeses and meats. In one of the towns Tai saw a poster for an opening night party for this new dance club -- put on by Ministry of Sound who are supposedly the best you can get for House(techno) music. Not usually my kind of thing, but I didn't fly 5000 miles to not try new things. Anyways, one of the people we were hanging out with is fluent in Italian, so he called and got us on the list, and we bought some cheese, olives, bread, sausage and Chianti and brought it back to the hostel to eat and get ready.

The party was a couple towns away from Florence, and we ended up leaving the hostel until about 11:00pm -- we were all so antsy to leave that we forgot to get directions or an address or anything, we just got on the road. We made it to the town we thought it was in, we drove around for a while and didn't find anything, so we asked someone who pointed us in the general direction but pretty much said that we had no chance of ever finding it. It is a total "locals only" club, its out in the middle of nowhere in a sort of industrial park/warehouse area between towns. We drove around for a while, ended up driving through a f*ing castle and almost off a cliff, and after asking a few more people for general directions, and with a lot of luck we actually found it. We finished the last of my Absinthe in the parking lot and went in.

It was actually a lot of fun, we ended up outlasting most of the locals and stayed until 5:00am when they finally turned the lights on. Poor Pablo, the absinthe didn't sit with him and he spent the last 3 hours puking in the parking lot -- but even he says it was totally worth it.

I ended up getting back to the hostel and going to bed at 6 in the morning, and we had to get up at 10 to return the car. The night before I didn't get much sleep because I was out until 4 in the morning playing darts against some really nice Irishmen (America won!), so I am running myself a little ragged. Pablo is still hung over, and Tai took a 5 day trip up to Amsterdam, so I look foreword to some sleep tonight.